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Philosophy of Medicine provides a fresh and comprehensive treatment of the topic. It offers a novel theory of the nature of medicine, and proposes a new attitude to medicine, aimed at improving the quality of debates between medical traditions (including alternatives) and facilitating medicine's decolonization.
Sommario
- Introduction
- Part A. What Is Medicine?
- 1. Varieties of Medicine
- 2. The Goal of Medicine
- 3. The Business of Medicine
- 4. Health and Disease
- Part B. What Should We Think of Medicine?
- 5. Evidence-Based Medicine
- 6. Medical Nihilism
- 7. Medical Cosmopolitanism
- 8. Alternatives and Medical Dissidence
- 9. Decolonizing Medicine
Info autore
Alex Broadbent is Professor of Philosophy, Executive Dean of Humanities, and founding Director of the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science at the University of Johannesburg. He has interests in philosophy of science, medicine, epidemiology, and law. This is his third book.
Riassunto
Philosophy of Medicine provides a fresh and comprehensive treatment of the topic. It offers a novel theory of the nature of medicine, and proposes a new attitude to medicine, aimed at improving the quality of debates between medical traditions (including alternatives) and facilitating medicine's decolonization.
Testo aggiuntivo
The first thing to love about this book is what you can learn from it: what medicine can do even if it can't cure much, what evidence-based medicine may have achieved and what it may not have, the role of common law and the importance of cosmopolitanism, the dangers of epistemic medical relativism, a value-free definition of 'health' and much more. The second is that it practices what it preaches. The epistemic humility and practice-centered cosmopolitanism that Broadbent advocates for medicine characterize his own arguments and explanations. The book is thoughtful, humane, informed, a serious study, both philosophically and practically.
